90-acre Sepulveda Pass brushfire '100% surrounded'

LOS ANGELES - An army of firefighters left the 90-acre brushfire in the Sepulveda Pass with it 100 percent surrounded, and two patrols and one engine company were on the lookout for flare-ups today, fire officials said.

The blaze was reported at 3:36 p.m. Friday on the east side of the San Diego (405) Freeway near Getty Center Drive, according to a fire department spokesman.

How the fire started, if known, was not disclosed.

No structures were damaged and no one was injured, fire officials said.

Sepulveda Boulevard was reopened early Saturday evening, which alleviated traffic havoc in an area already cluttered with construction equipment associated with the widening of the freeway.

A county-leased SuperScooper aircraft worked the fire, skimming the ocean off the Pacific Palisades, as did several water-dropping helicopters.

Eight torahs were removed Friday from Leo Baeck Temple as a precaution, and Mount St. Mary's College cleared the campus.

Another wildfire started in Coldwater Canyon about 4:20 p.m. Sunday, and city firefighters quenched it with water drops. How that fire started was under investigation.